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Shooting sculptural detail in an interior space

Shooting sculptural detail in an interior space

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Shooting sculptural detail in an interior space

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So one of the things that I always look for when I'm doing my walkthrough are places I can separate with lighting. It's one of my real joys. And as I was walking around, I saw this. The cabinet is beautiful, I really like it a lot, this sculputre is great, the banner hanging behind, but what really makes it work for me is the fact that there is an overhead tungsten bulb shining down. And it's putting this glow on the wall and the glow on the wall means that if I shoot from an angle looking across the front of the sculpture I'm going to get a sharp edge cut on the front of that end of the glow and that's going to create seperation. And that's what I really love. So I brought the camera over. And what dictated the camera placement was that I was looking to get the relationship of the glowing behind the edge and the edge correct and that told me where to put the camera. When I had that right I knew the camera was in the correct spot. Then I decided I'd better level the camera because it…

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